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Hello world. And welcome to the Full Circle Podcast on Hacker Public Radio. This episode consists of an interview with entrepreneur, thinker and author Paul Levy.

The founder of Cats3000 and Rational Madness and author of the play Texts, Paul is also convener of the Critical Incident unconference, which together lead to Learning to Dance with Spiders, a workshop in which Paul shares some experiments from his book about living consciously with your mobile phone and staying intact in the world of social media. "Truly ground-breaking, uncomfortable, and usable.”

Also discussed:
Jaron Lanier: You are not a Gadget
Sherri Turkel: Alone Together

The Critical Incident un-Conference for 2012 has been announced on the theme of the I. Take a look over the conference plan for this year over at the Critical Incident website, www.thecriticalincident.com/

Hello world. Welcome to the Full Circle Podcast on Hacker Public Radio. This episode consists of an interview with journalist and author Becky Hogge.

Her book, Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno Utopia came out last year around the time of the extradition case surrounding Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The book explores modern technology and society through activism and journalism, covering the hacker counter-culture, from Stallman and Lessig, the Chaos Club to WikiLeaks Julian Assange and Rop Gonggrijp.

“I think most of what were fighting still today in the world is incompetence. Most of what we’re fighting is stupidity, and maybe a little bit of opportunism. There is also the ominous, control-seeking large corporate interests.”

“We come in peace. We’re not called Chaos Computer Club because we cause chaos. If anything, a lot of our collective work has actually prevented chaos by pointing out that maybe we should lay some decent virtual foundations before we build any more virtual skyscrapers.”

welcome to the Full Circle Podcast on Hacker Public Radio. This is the fifth, if I'm counting correctly, of our highlights of last Summers unconference, OGG Camp eleven, held at Farnham Maltings in the South of England.

This show is a recording of a presentation from Laura Czajkowski on the benefits of real-world, as opposed to cyber-community. Entitled Life Outside of IRC in a FLOSS Community, Laura evangelises on the on the benefits of real-world interaction, beyond that on-line.

Laura describes herself as Argumentative, Stubborn, Geek, Ubuntu Fan and MUNSTER FAN. Munster, for those who don't know, being a major rugby team from the town of Munster back in her native Ireland.

Welcome to the Full Circle Podcast on Hacker Public Radio. This is the fourth of our highlights of last Summers unconference, OGG Camp-11, held at Farnham Maltings in the South of England.

Introducing Andy Piper on MQTT: MQ Telemetry Transport

MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/"Internet of Things" connectivity protocol. It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium. For example, it has been used in sensors communicating to a broker via satellite link, over occasional dial-up connections with healthcare providers, and in a range of home automation and small device scenarios. It is also ideal for mobile applications because of its small size, low power usage, minimised data packets, and efficient distribution of information to one or many receivers

Introducing Karen Sandler: legal eagle, formerly of the Software Freedom Law Center and newly appointed executive director at the Gnome Foundation.

Presentation from Karen Sandler. Karen wasn’t due on the scheduled track, but stepped into an unexpected gap to talk about something, dare I say, very close to her heart? Opening up embedded software in medical devices.

This is the first of our highlights of last Summer's unconference, OGG Camp eleven, held at Farnham Maltings in the South of England.

Introducing Simon Phipps, who presented the opening session of the unconference to a packed main hall, on Software Freedom.

A computer industry veteran, Simon Phipps came on with an actual box of hats which he proceeded the change at speed, reminding me of Tommy Cooper in his heyday.

Simon has come up through hands-on roles as field engineer, programmer and systems analyst, run a software publishing company, worked with OSI standards in the eighties, on the first commercial collaborative conferencing software in the nineties, and helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM.

A founding Director of the Open Mobile Alliance, Simon is Chief Strategy Officer at independent software company ForgeRock and Director of the Open Source Initiative. Find his essays at webmink.com.

Simon Phipps’ presentation on software freedom. Here’s a shortened version of the presentation which ran to 35 minutes in its entirety.

Cast your minds back to Summer 2011, when Google Plus still looked like a good idea, before the HP Touchpad came and went in a fire sale and before the Euro debt crisis turned into a Keystone Cops movie.

A presenter formerly of this parish, one Ed Hewitt, went out and bought himself a new toy; a Samsung Chromebook. ChromeOS marches on, but for how long? I stand back and referee as Ed and Dave Wilkins, fight it out.

Hello World and welcome to our show on Hacker Public Radio. This episode is the last of our three interviews resulting from the Opentech Conference over the Summer by my co-host, Les Pounder

We're going to jump straight in and skip the introductions; if you want to find out about the conference and our other interviews, you can listen back to the earlier preview show with conference organiser Sam Smith and interview shows with speakers Greg Mehne of Social Innovation Camp and Paula Graham of Fossbox.

"Founded in 2004, we’re a not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge: any kind of data and content – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed. We promote open knowledge because of its potential to deliver far-reaching societal benefits."

OpenTech 2011 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, transport and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends.

Hello world and welcome to our show on Hacker Public Radio. This episode is our de-brief on the Opentech Conference in London, plus an interview with Glen Mehn of Social Innovation Camp by my co-host is Les Pounder

Social Innovation Camp brings together ideas, people and digital tools to build web-based solutions to social problems – all in just 48 hours

OpenTech 2011 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, transport and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends.

Each Thursday we play Syndicated creative commons content. The Full Circle Podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community
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OpenTech 2011 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, transport and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends.

Hello world and welcome to our on Hacker Public Radio. This is Part Five in our series on producing the podcast. We've prepped, recorded, edited and assembled, now it's time to release the show onto an unsuspecting world. All the hard work done? Not quite...

Hello world and welcome to our on Hacker Public Radio. Part four in our series on producing the podcast. We've prep'd, recorded and edited all the segments, it's time to bolt it all together to try to produce something greater than the sum of its parts.

Les Pounder takes us through the day of Sat. April 2nd at Mad-Lab, Manchester, UK. U-Cubed is a free 'unconference' for devotees of free and Open Source software. Co-inciding with the release of Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1, the event drew Linux enthusiasts from across the North-West of England for testing, demo's, talks, Linux installs and workshops.

Energy-saving computing. It’s a neat concept, saving you money by saving you electricity. That’s money off your utilitiy bill while you do your bit to save the planet. Granola is software that improves the energy efficiency of your PC or laptop. A few weeks ago I spoke to Matt Grove from Miserware, who explained how it works…

Hello world and welcome to our on Hacker Public Radio. This episode consists of our interview with Sam Smith, one of the organisers of the Opentech Conference in London this May. My co-host is Les Pounder

OpenTech 2011 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, transport and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends.